“After striking a chord during the Winter Olympics, Netflix’s Icarus
Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov, the subject of Icarus, was one of the whistleblowers who came forward about Russian athletes using performance-enhancing drugs to compete in the Olympic Games. Fogel’s documentary helped shed a spotlight on the subject, and the country was subsequently banned from competing in the Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
However, Olympic officials allowed Russian athletes to participate under a neutral flag as “Olympic Athletes from Russia,” which Fogel told EW was “a slap in the face to every clean athlete in the world.”